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Post number 21467

condour75 — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:56:49 -0800

Zoological Bloopers and Practical Jokes. Strange Science is a great little page of missteps in the classification and illustration of exotic and extinct animals. It's hard to classify all the links; some are dinosaur screwups, some are just poor depictions of animals from the time before photographs. Most are fascinating. Although, they skip over one of my favorite examples, Michelangelo's Jonah and the Whale.

By: dolface

dolface — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 20:05:02 -0800

nice link condour75, i really like fringe-geek stuff like this. thanks

By: condour75

condour75 — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 20:10:25 -0800

thanks dolface, it does have a certain Comic-Book-Guy-looks-at-history feel, doesn't it?

By: biscotti

biscotti — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 20:25:38 -0800

Fascinating link, condour75, I'll be spending some time here. Thanks! Somewhat related is this site of curious zoological names. Includes: "Ba humbugi" (a snail from Mba Island, Fiji) and "Pison eu" (a South American wasp) (and, um, "thanks dolface" is so Sam Spade...unless, of course, it's pronounced "dol-fatchay")

By: dolface

dolface — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:03:45 -0800

thanks biscotti, for the hammett reference, (it's pronounced 'dahl-fayse' for what that's worth) and one of these days i'll get around to putting the -- very boring -- story of my handle on my profile page

By: frykitty

frykitty — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 22:33:40 -0800

What a fantastic post, condour. SMOOCH!

By: kurumi

kurumi — Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:02:08 -0800

Great post. I was happy to see Hallucigenia included; Burgess Shale creatures would make dandy movie monsters (when magnified accordingly to frightening sizes).

By: luyon

luyon — Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:43:50 -0800

If you like this site, I highly recommend the book On Monsters and Marvels. It's a book from sometime in the Renassaince with lots of pictures of supposed monsters and circus-style humans. The added footnotes that explain what the author could have been seeing are priceless.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:56:05 -0800

Hallucigenia will be chasing me through my nightmares tonight and for the rest of my life. Thanks, I guess.